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- Okay, as we begin to work with InDesign…in creating EPUBs, you're going to…want to have a program available…on your computer to look at those EPUBs, right?…When you export to PDF, you could look…at those PDFs in Reader or Acrobat.…Well, on a Macintosh, you already have…a program installed called iBooks from Apple.…And that can be your default EPUB reader.…But on Windows, you don't have anything.…So I recommend that Windows users…download Adobe Digital Editions.…And I also recommend that Mac users do too.…ADE for short is free,…it's EPUB 3 compliant, which is good,…and it is not the world's best EPUB reader…and I don't think that many end users…will actually read an EPUB in ADE.…

It's mainly used for checking in books…that people have downloaded from the library, for example.…Just go to Adobe Digital Editions,…search for it in Google, and then go to Download…and you can see that you can download it…for Mac or Windows.…And Windows users, when you download it…you're going to get a prompt when you start to install it,…

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6/29/2015

Learn how to use the software you already know and love for print publications—Adobe InDesign CC—to create great looking ebooks. Learn what's hidden inside an EPUB, the ebook standard format, and how InDesign can be the fastest road to an EPUB, with its ability to automatically convert your files into the necessary HTML and CSS. As the training progresses, you'll discover how to optimize existing text, graphics, tables, and videos and tailor your EPUBs specifically for the Kindle, Kobo, and NOOK ereaders. InDesign insider and author Anne-Marie Concepción also shares some free scripts for Mac and Windows that will make your ebook export even faster, as well as features in InDesign CC built especially for ebooks, such as semantic markup and CSS resizing.